got another shipment today. watched the short films "5th Wheel" (an honest to god tv pilot - the back cover reads "dear tv, this is my show") and "Airplane Pillows". I haven't been this inspired by art in a long time.

i've been watching some of those "the truth behind" tv documentaries. watched the ones on the codex gigas, secrets of the druids, and the bermuda triangle.

codex gigas was really interesting i had only heard about it once in passing.

also watched schoof - a man and his wife go through marital problems and he starts living outside while two cowboys want to gangbang a passed out girl but she od's so they cut up her body and put it in the fireplace. also there is a giant hamster controlled by this new alien drug called schoof that is making the townspeople act strangely and eventually mind controlling them. or something.

i want to say part of the reason i wasn't quite as scared by that film as certain others is cos i was with someone when i saw it, but shit i watched the grudge movies in the middle of the day with another person to and that shit had me checkin behind shower curtains for weeks

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the ring scared the shit out of me maybe in part because i was 13 but man i dread the thought of having to rewatch that if for whatever reason i did

I get that, I saw The Birds and Psycho when I was about 7, but the worst was The Exorcist, around 9.
I tried to rewatch The Exorcist several times, but when I finally managed (in college) it scared me shitless all over again.

I get that, I saw The Birds and Psycho when I was about 7, but the worst was The Exorcist, around 9.
I tried to rewatch The Exorcist several times, but when I finally managed (in college) it scared me shitless all over again.

the only movie to genuinely scare me has been the exorcist. I didn't see horror films as a kid cause i was too much of a wuss and in my teens i had just no interest. Then at abut 20 i figured it might be time to catch up on a few classics in the genre. Exorcist got me genuinely scared for like a week after. Then i was hesitant to see it after but the truth is the idea of it was always a lot worse. I suppose i've seen it about a dozen times now. With the spiderwalk scene most of the times. Which is probably the worst....at least the first time because it's put in such an unexpected spot in the film....

I guess Ju-On scared me when i saw it in the theater too. I don't remember anything else really scaring me otherwise. I've never seen the ring but i saw Ringu.

It's weird how desensitized i've become considering that as a kid and teen i didn't think i was ever gonna be able to watch any horror. Seeing exorcist at 9? Fuck this. I would have been traumatized for life. My horror memories as a kid are just seeing maybe like 3 or 4 scenes of some horror films an they all stuck with me for years. Especially Poltergeist. Which one i saw as an adult i was like...really? this scared me?

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Seeing exorcist at 9? Fuck this. I would have been traumatized for life.

yea well, there is one of the reasons why I haven't watched much horror films as an adult, I can't take it.

it's not like I would have watched any of these films as a child because I wanted to (besides The Birds) - that's what you get when you have an older brother "babysitting" you. The Exorcist put an end to that, though. I literally froze and eventually rattted him out.

that is weird to me. If horror made me feel as bad as it did when i was a kid i'd want nothing to do with it.

Anyway most horror i do end up seeing is bad because my gf has a thing for bad horror. It's comforting to her. So we watch a lot of it. I have a similar thing with bad action films but i don't subject her to them. It's like i know its shit and would never let anyone know i'm watching this, but there's something comforting in it. I guess because as a kid she watched bad horror films, and as a kid i watched bad action films. I find that if i think of my childhood friends it was often like that. They wanted to watch either bad action or bad horror. Sometimes bad comedies. But it always had to be bad. I'd be suspicious of kids who liked good films. Unless by accident.

yeah i don't process adrenaline properly i think. It's like i only did a rollercoaster once and never wanted to ever again.

Like i seriously considered looking that up, if there's actually people who can't handle adrenaline. Because i always felt like i couldn't. Anything that gives people a pleasant rush, for me it's like, no i feel awful and horrible, please make it stop.

Well except orgasms i guess...still i've been known to feel horrible right after.